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| Rosser, A.; Haywood, M. | |
| Guidance for CITES Scientific Authorities - Checklist to assist in making non-detriment findings for Appendix II exports | |
| 2002 Full Book | |
To develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, IUCN convened a workshop to address the basic question of "what is meant by a non-detriment finding?" and to explore information needs for making such findings. The workshop, held in Hong Kong, brought together biologists, managers, and national CITES staff to explore the issue and develop practical guidance. The focus of the initial workshop was global, to allow general agreement by representatives from the CITES regions on a principle that will affect all Scientific Authorities.Asubsequent workshop was held in Cambridge to refine the guidance and to test the recommendations emanating from the first workshop. It was anticipated that a series of regional workshops would be necessary to explore specific regional needs in more depth and to lead to training and awareness raising where necessary. Fortunately, the CITES Secretariat has now developed a work plan which includes a number of regional training workshops, where the guidance on making non-detriment findings can be discussed and further tested. The first IUCN workshop comprised a series of papers aimed at introducing the problem, and these papers form the basis of this publication, leading on to the checksheets for Scientific Authorities developed at the two workshops. This volume is split into four parts. The first introductory part presents the problem; the second presents insights from CITES staff in producer and consumer countries; the third presents biological factors to consider in managing species for sustainable harvests and the fourth part introduces the final checksheet approach that was developed, along with some worked examples. |
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